Example sentences of "[adv] let him go " in BNC.

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1 Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’
2 Cameron would not let him go .
3 Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again .
4 Now Whitaker must concentrate on an Olympic challenge with the charismatic grey , as Mr and Mrs Bradley , who would not let him go to Seoul , have given permission for him to compete in Barcelona .
5 She would not let him go .
6 The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat .
7 PACKIE BONNER is angry that Glasgow Celtic boss Liam Brady would not let him go on loan to Premier Division club Middlesbrough .
8 We did not let him go upstairs , but one day Tabby found him on my bed .
9 Gilbert ceased struggling , realising that Cardiff would not let him go until he knew more .
10 It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me .
11 One of his targets was former Pool midfieldman Don Hutchison , but Liverpool would not let him go .
12 One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home .
13 How could the government simply let him go — and what would happen to him if they did ?
14 I took Gabriel into myself and loved him more than myself and maybe you 're right and I just ca n't let him go , but it 's not like that , Philippa , I swear it , it 's something else , a force — something wonderful if only I were n't so alone with it , something terrible unless I learn to understand it .
15 ‘ Realistically , only Blackburn Rovers could afford to buy him and even then we would n't let him go … although it would be nice if they tried to tempt me , ’ he quipped .
16 He is now scared to use outside loos and says he has lost work with bosses who wo n't let him go to find other facilities .
17 Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots .
18 Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots .
19 And I ca n't let him go .
20 ‘ You ca n't let him go , ’ she screamed .
21 ‘ Do n't let him go !
22 I sha n't let him go that easily . ’
23 ‘ You ca n't let him go off like that , ’ hissed Rayleen loudly .
24 Offcourse Howard Wilkinson could n't guarantee him a place in the first eleven and Mr Wilkinson told Strandli that if he wants to leave Leeds United that 's fine with him , but he wo n't let him go for ‘ nothing ’ .
25 ‘ But he wo n't let him go , ’ said Adam flatly .
26 He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair !
27 Do n't , do n't let him go out there he 'll go berserk !
28 Do n't let him go in the water it 's too cold !
29 They wo n't let him go unless they 're gon na replace him with a stag .
30 so I thought I could n't , I could n't let him go
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